Canada’s Humphries/Moyse defend Olympic women’s bobsled title; U.S. gets silver, bronze

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Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse put together a clean final two runs to overtake Team USA’s Elana Meyers and Lauryn Williams, and win a second consecutive Olympic gold in women’s bobsled.

Humphries and Moyse were down nearly a quarter of a second to USA-1, but cut the Americans’ lead to .11 of a second after the third run this morning.

On their fourth and final run, they turned in their slowest time at 57.92 seconds.

But Meyers and Williams still had to deliver on their own final run – the very last one of the competition.

Unfortunately for them, they couldn’t get the fast ride they needed. They wound up getting the silver, losing out to Humphries and Moyse by one-tenth of a second on aggregate time.

Jamie Greubel and Aja Evans of USA-2 were in bronze medal position going into today and they were able to stay there to land the final spot on the podium. They finished one second behind the Canadians.

Jazmine Fenlator and Lolo Jones in the third U.S. sled were unable to improve upon their 11th place standing after yesterday’s first two runs.

Despite the near-miss for the gold, Sochi still marks the first two-medal performance for U.S. women’s bobsled in a single Winter Olympics. Additionally, the U.S. has earned at least one medal in each of the four Olympic women’s bobsled competitions.

But Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers remain the lone U.S. women’s bobsled gold medalists after taking the first-ever Olympic title on home ice at Salt Lake City 12 years ago.

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WOMEN’S BOBSLED – FINAL STANDINGS
Aggregate time across four runs

1. Canada-1 (Kaillie Humphries/Heather Moyse), 3:50.61
2. USA-1 (Elana Meyers/Lauryn Williams), +.10 seconds
3. USA-2 (Jamie Greubel/Aja Evans), +1.0 seconds

11. USA-3 (Jazmine Fenlator/Lolo Jones), +3.36 seconds

2023 French Open women’s singles draw, scores

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At the French Open, Iga Swiatek of Poland eyes a third title at Roland Garros and a fourth Grand Slam singles crown overall.

The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris.

Swiatek, the No. 1 seed from Poland, can join Serena Williams and Justine Henin as the lone women to win three or more French Opens since 2000.

Having turned 22 on Wednesday, she can become the youngest woman to win three French Opens since Monica Seles in 1992 and the youngest woman to win four Slams overall since Williams in 2002.

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But Swiatek is not as dominant as in 2022, when she went 16-0 in the spring clay season during an overall 37-match win streak.

She retired from her last pre-French Open match with a right thigh injury and said it wasn’t serious. Before that, she lost the final of another clay-court tournament to Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed, and Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, the No. 4 seed and Wimbledon champion, are the top challengers in Paris.

No. 3 Jessica Pegula, the highest-seeded American man or woman, was eliminated in the third round.

No. 6 Coco Gauff, runner-up to Swiatek last year, is the best hope to become the first American to win a Grand Slam singles title since Sofia Kenin at the 2020 Australian Open. The 11-major drought is the longest for U.S. women since Seles won the 1996 Australian Open.

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2023 French Open men’s singles draw, scores

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The French Open men’s singles draw is missing injured 14-time champion Rafael Nadal for the first time since 2004, leaving the Coupe des Mousquetaires ripe for the taking.

The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris.

Novak Djokovic is not only bidding for a third crown at Roland Garros, but also to lift a 23rd Grand Slam singles trophy to break his tie with Nadal for the most in men’s history.

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But the No. 1 seed is Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, who won last year’s U.S. Open to become, at 19, the youngest man to win a major since Nadal’s first French Open title in 2005.

Now Alcaraz looks to become the second-youngest man to win at Roland Garros since 1989, after Nadal of course.

Alcaraz missed the Australian Open in January due to a right leg injury, but since went 30-3 with four titles. Notably, he has not faced Djokovic this year. They could meet in the semifinals.

Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No. 2 seed, was upset in the first round by 172nd-ranked Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild. It marked the first time a men’s top-two seed lost in the first round of any major since 2003 Wimbledon (Ivo Karlovic d. Lleyton Hewitt).

No. 9 Taylor Fritz and No. 12 Frances Tiafoe are the highest-seeded Americans, looking to become the first U.S. man to make the French Open quarterfinals since Andre Agassi in 2003. Since then, five different American men combined to make the fourth round on eight occasions.

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